.SHORTLY AFTER declaring his run for the Autonomous nomination in 1960, John F. Kennedy said: “I do not remember a single instance where a vice-presidential applicant contributed an appointing ballot.” Still, the north-easterner picked Lyndon Johnson as his running-mate, wishing that the politician coming from Texas would help him in southern states. Johnson tore throughout the South in a learn nicknamed the LBJ Express, reaching rallies in a ten-gallon hat to the pressures of “The Yellow Flower of Texas”.
After he gained, Kennedy acknowledged that “our company could not have carried the South without Johnson”. That Johnson “supplied the South” is actually now obtained wisdom. Yet the amount of distinction perform vice-presidential selections in fact make in elections?